Anti-jihad ads reminiscent of McCarthyism, 1950s fear mongering
By Mike Honda Washington Post: This week felt like a throwback to the 1950s, to McCarthyism and fear mongering. I, and countless others, spoke out in defense of Muslim Americans […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Supporting Pakistanis, Stopping the Taliban: Saving Pakistan from Taliban
New York Times: Many Pakistanis have united to condemn the Taliban for shooting Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl. According to a Taliban spokesman, the girl was targeted because she “was promoting Western culture […]
Bail granted to Pakistani cleric accused of framing girl in Quran case
Source: CNN Author: The Muslim cleric accused of framing a young Christian girl in a blasphemy case in Pakistan was granted bail Thursday, his lawyer told CNN. Bail was granted after several witnesses who initially accused the cleric of tampering with evidence to frame the girl recanted their statements. The […]
‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’
Huff Post: The Archdiocese of New Orleans is responding to the high rate of violence and murder in the Crescent City with a basic Biblical reminder that reads: Thou Shalt Not Kill – God. This week the diocese will be distributing 5,000 signs to its parishes to be distributed to […]
Butterfly effect: 9,000 butterflies die in Damien Hirst’s crowd-pleasing expo
RT: Damien Hirst’s retrospective exhibition at London’s Tate Modern drew nearly half a million visitors. Although it turned out there were heavy losses. The gallery says 9,000 butterflies died during a 23-week run of the solo show. One of Hirst’s most important early creations, “In and Out of Love”, featured […]
Canadian Minister, Jason Kenney calls on the Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: Press Release On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl […]
Islam’s sectarian divide has turned from mistrust to bitter violence
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk death Nushin Arbabzadah GUARDIAN CO UK In the Kabul of the 1980s, […]
Planet with four suns discovered by ‘armchair astronomers’
Planet believed to be six times the size of Earth is named PH1 after Planet Hunters website used by two American volunteers guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 A planet with […]
The Rude Awakening – Top 10 List of unusual Mormon beliefs and practices.
The Rude Awakening by Carl Lindquist http://clindquist-rudeawakening.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-list-of-unusual-mormon-beliefs.html?m=1 Top 10 List of Unusual Mormon Beliefs and Practices Obviously, every religion can seem strange to those outside its doors. And we often […]
Justice4BakeryBoy: CM Shahbaz Sharif’s daughter Rabia gets an innocent bakery worker beaten up by Elite Police
Source: LUBP Mrs Rabia Imran, daughter of the so called Khadim-e-Aala (in fact Sarparast-e-Aala of PML-N goons and LeJ terrorists) Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, gets an innocent man beaten up by Elite Police in Lahore. His only crime? He refused to serve her during the shop’s off-hours. The bakery worker […]
CANADA’S GOVERNMENT MINISTER, JASON KENNEY, CALLS ON HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMAAT IN LONDON
Source: Ahmaddiyya Muslim Community Press Department UK On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl Mosque in London. During the hour-long meeting various issues were discussed, including Canada’s forthcoming […]
Afghanistan bans Pakistani news papers over “propaganda”
Source: Reuters.com (Reuters) – Afghanistanhas banned all Pakistani newspapers over what security officials say is anti-government propaganda aimed at Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said on Saturday, in a move likely to worsen already tense cross-border ties. Pakistani newspapers are usually filled with statements that the Afghan government does not […]
FBI issues Android warning
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
Gunmen Kill Worshipers Leaving Mosque in Nigeria
Source: NY Times: LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen armed with assault rifles attacked a rural village on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 24 people, including worshipers leaving a mosque after prayers before dawn, officials said. Read More:
“A New Anti-Semitism” – Inside The Growing Radicalization Of France’s Muslim Youth
Source: Worldcrunch: PARIS – French police shot and killed a man, and arrested 12 others in countrywide anti-terrorist raids this past weekend. True, this is no terrorist network of the kind that fomented the September 11 attacks in 2001, or in London in 2004. But the small group […]
TypeScript: Microsoft’s New Take on Javascript, from the Creator of C#
Source: Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s big jobs easier. Key features of TypeScript include: module support class declarations static typing a Visual Studio 2012 plugin S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, […]
In Bangladesh, most complain over Facebook
Source: Gulf Times By Mizan Rahman The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s anti-cyber crime cell has received, in the last nine months, over a thousand complaints, most of which were directed at the popular social networking site Facebook and were lodged by female students, official said yesterday. Bangladesh Computer Security Incident […]
World Bank and IDB sign Islamic finance deal
Source: MenaFn (MENAFN – Arab News) The World Bank and Islamic Development Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set out a framework for collaboration between the two parties and lend support to global, regional and country efforts in the development of Islamic Finance. World Bank Managing Director […]
TRIAL OF SALAFIST MAN RIVETS GERMANY
Source: Worldcrunch By Annette Ramelsberger BONN – “You have to use violence to defend Islamic values?” asks the judge. “Yes, of course,” Murat K. replies. Five months after he attacked police officers with a knife, the 26-year-old Salafist came clean in the courtroom: it was his duty, he said, to […]
Syria: Waiting for someone named Obama
Source: TOI Even as German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who was on a visit to China, diverted himself to Istanbul in a mission on Saturday aimed at tamping down Turkish-Syrian tensions, Der Spiegel calmly reported that the information about the “non-civilian cargo”, which led to the interception of a Syrian […]